It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

An angel has no memory.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.